The presentation of your Rich Client Platform application can be changed using the org.eclipse.ui.presentationFactories extension point.

This example will show how to use the R2.1 presentation, provided by the org.eclipse.ui.presentations.r21 plugin, in the RCP Browser Example application. Here is a screen shot of the browser example using the R2.1 presentation.

The following steps will deploy the plugin into the RCP application and activate it by setting some preferences.

Custom window layout

It is also possible to have a custom layout of the overall workbench window, by overriding WorkbenchWindowAdvisor.createWindowContents(Shell).
For example, some applications use this to add a branding banner at the top.
Note that this mechanism is independent of the presentation mechanism described above.